Fanfic / Superwomen of Eva 2: Blue Defiance

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Even when she realized that her relationship with Gendo wasn't all she once thought it was, Ritsuko felt powerless to change anything. When she happens to find a certain insect shaped artifact, however, the equation changes. Drastically.

During the Sahaquiel fight, Dr. Ritsuko Akagi realizes her life has reached a dead end. While driving home, she gets hit with a series of minor inconveniences — including a flat tire, a missing jack, and a malfunctioning lighter — and finds a damaged alien superweapon that binds with her overnight. After some thought, and appreciating the power it gives, Ritsuko resolves to stop Third Impact as the Blue Beetle.

Bittersweet Ending: The Reach is scared off and NERV and SEELE's plans are defused-however, Ritsuko is forced to leave and become a wanderer because she has become a wanted woman due to her involvement in the Instrumentality Plan and Gendo releasing her identity as the Blue Beetle.

Chekhov's Gun: The annihilator beam, first mentioned when Blue Beetle deals with some Yakuza.

Dead Alternate Counterpart: Ritsuko finds out that the Scarlet Scarab killed her own alternate version of Green Lantern/Misato Katsuragi (not that she had any other choice, being a lobotomized weapon for Gendo Ikari) and the Scarlet Scarab kills herself on a Heroic Sacrifice to destroy Leliel when Ritsuko manages to undo the lobotomy.

Drunk with Power: Ritsuko's first flight and having the Yakuza afraid of her pushes Ritsuko a little into this territory.

For Want of a Nail: There are strong hints that this story diverges from Superwomen Of Eva 2: Emerald Courage on the simple fact that Misato is not going paedophiliac for Shinji. In the other story Misato shows an attraction to Shinji early on and is more fed up with Kaji than in canon, so she ends up using her power ring to slam the elevator doors in his face shortly before the Big Blackout that coincided with Matarael's attack, and she takes that opportunity to defeat Matarael. After proving that her ring can take the fight to the Angels, she resigns her position as Tactical Operations Director. In Blue Defiance, she did not use her ring to slam the doors in Kaji's face and was then trapped in the elevator with Kaji, preventing her from facing Matarael, and because she didn't get the chance to face an Angel, she kept her position as Tactical Operations Director. In that story Kaji replaced Misato and ordered an evacuation when Sahaquiel arrived rather than having the Evas try to catch it; here, Misato used the same plan as in canon, which directly resulted in the Scarab being where it was for Ritsuko to pick it up. However, Blue Defiance has yet to specifically mention Power Girl, Supergirl, or Wonder Girl.

Fugitive Arc: After the Wham Episode. And, interestingly, it never truly gets resolved on the story proper—Ritsuko saves the world, sure, but has to remain on the run on the epilogue.

Blue Beetle apparently has determined her situation has crossed this after the Wham Episode, as she then proceeds to attack Seele and destroy the Mass Production Evas directly.

The Annihilator Beam is labeled as only to use in this fashion by Ritsuko after hearing how much destruction it would cause as collateral damage. She even refuses to use it against Zeruel on their first encounter because of said potential devastation. It finally gets used by her to kill Zeruel on the final chapter, because they are in orbit and there will be no collateral damage. The blast can be seen from the ground with the naked eye.

Let's You and Him Fight: The Scarab and Misato's Green Lantern Ring retain their comic book counterparts' animosity toward each other, leading to this trope. Ritsuko also ends up having to fight an alternate version of herself called the "Scarlet Scarab" after Leliel summons her to defend itself.

Reed Richards Is Useless: Zig-zagged. Initially averted when Ritsuko signs up with the JSSDF as Blue Beetle to be their anti-Angel weapon and shares technology from the Scarab, the aversion is then subverted when Deathstroke's attack and the events of the Wham Episode result in the destruction or grounding of most of the vehicles outfitted with Scarab technology.

Room Full of Crazy: Ritsuko only manages to fill up the whiteboard before Misato interrupts her.

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